From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: I want to migrate from VC to free Win32 compiler
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:29:56 GMT
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:51:35 +0200, "Jan Bares"
<jan DOT bares AT antek DOT cz DOT no DOT spam> wrote:

>From the FAQ is understood that there are big problems with RSXNTDJ,
>Cygnus and Mingw.

Again, what's the big problem with MinGW?  All I see from FAQ section
3.6 is that you lose the POSIX layer and some of the extra GNU ports
that come with DJGPP.
  http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq3_6.html

>> Because Cygwin simulates a Posix system on top of non-Posix Windows.
>
>OK, But I don't need POSIX. I don't want to port Unix applications to
>Windows, I just need to compile my Windows application.

If you don't need POSIX compliance, the MinGW port of GCC can use a
260 KB DLL (msvcrt.dll) included with Windows 9x.
  http://www.mingw.org/

>BTW: How do those compilers support Microsoft extensions?

Microsoft "embrace and extensions" to the C++ language? Not very well.
GCC compilers instead support the much cleaner GNU extensions.

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